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2021-06-08 FCDCC Meeting Notes About 24 FCDCC members met online using ZOOM software. Please login between 6:00pm and 6:30pm. The social part of the meeting starts at 6:00pm, and the business part of the meeting starts at 6:30pm. Paul will email meeting invitations for the monthly club meetings and the monthly coffee meetings to all club members. If you haven't received your invitation by the day of the meeting, please send an email to info@fcdcc.com, and either Paul or I (Mike Barry) will send you the meeting ID and password. Pay your dues for 2021 to Dave Chamness (3854 Braidwood Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524) at the next meeting if you haven't already paid. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for a spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18. You can now pay your dues ONLINE with PayPal!!! Since most of our club members have been fully vaccinated, we are starting to discuss meeting in-person again. The Aztlan Center still has openings for August and beyond, $120 for each 3 hour meeting. Ralph and Mike are planning to send an email survey to our club members asking when we should start meeting in person again. Some of the SIG meetings and outings are being held on ZOOM, but many of them are on hold until the COVID-19 Pandemic is over, and a few outings have been held in person and outside.
Fine Art Photography - Mike Barry GoPro/Video - Judy Canon Macro - Paul Marcoux Landscape - Ken Eis Please email info@fcdcc.com if your SIG will be meeting soon so I can add the meeting to our website. June Activities 6/5 @7am, Impromptu Macro Outing to Andy Goris' property to take pictures of wildflowers. 6/8 @6pm on ZOOM, June Club Meeting 6/15 @6pm on ZOOM, June Fine Art SIG Meeting 6/16 @7pm Landscape Slideshow of Horsetooth Falls images 6/17 @9am on ZOOM, June Coffee Meeting 6/22 @7pm on ZOOM, June GoPro/Video SIG meeting 6/25-26, Landscape SIG outing to Paint Mines near Colorado Springs Future Activities 7/13 July Club presentation by David duChemin "The Heart of the Photograph" No General Club meeting in July No picnic in July Send your photograph submittals (corrected fix-it-photos, club outings, challenge topics, old and new, or your favorite images) (up to 8 images) to Walter Lyons at walyons@frii.com. Remember to send in before and after versions of your pictures so we can learn about post processing. Please send them by Sunday evening so Walt has time to create the slideshow. We are working on adding videos to the slideshow, but we haven't figured out how to do that yet. August meeting challenge topics: (no meeting in July) The August Fix-It-Photo is "North Park Cabin" by Cecil Hellyer. Please send images (Fix-It-Photos) that you would like everyone to try "Fixing" to Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com. If you don't already have a headshot on the website, please send one to Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com. Many thanks to Rick Dunnahoo for his presentation "Rick Dunahoo Photo Tours". You can see more of his work on his website at: https://rickdunnahoo.com David duChemin will give his presentation "The Heart of the Photograph" to our club on July 13 @7pm. Mike Barry will email ZOOM invitations to club members. Mark Sauer will talk about "Photography and Fine Art" at the August meeting. Our members contributed images to the May slideshow, and you can find it on the club website on the June 2021 page. Hailey from Larimer County is looking for pictures of geology, wildlife and open space landscapes in Larimer County for a Naturalist Guide Book to Larimer County. If you would like to donate pictures, the county would love to have them. When Hailey provides more details I will email them to our club members. Please check out our club Facebook page by searching on Facebook for "Fort Collins Digital Camera Club". You are welcome to post fix-it or challenge topic or anything that you want on our Facebook page. I would like to see more pictures from our SIG outings on Facebook. Email Mike, info@fcdcc.com, when you find mistakes, missing information or if you have suggestions for the website and I will try to address the issues. ========================================================== SPECIAL SPEAKER FOR OUR JULY MEETING ========================================================== David duChemin will give his "The Heart of the Photograph" presentation to our club at our regular July club meeting. David's "calling is to help photographers make photographs that light a spark in people, that communicate clearly, that captivate imaginations and grab the attention and hearts of the people who will see them". He is a photographer, workshop leader, book author, creative instigator and stand-up comedian. The Heart of the Photograph is a 90 minutes long with some time for Q&A. During the presentation David will explore 10 powerful ideas about creating more engaging photographs... Everyone who attends his presentation will be given 2 FREE eBooks, and the presentation will be recorded and made available for club members to watch later. David will be hosting the ZOOM meeting, and Mike will email ZOOM invitations about a week before the presentation.
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